So the word "grok" is pervasive enough that you guys know it without having read Stranger In A Strange Land? Interesting. I've read the book and I do use the word IRL, but I wouldn't use it in a fic unless it was a deliberate Heinlein reference.
That's correct, I've not read that book. It seems to have entered deeply into programmer culture, which is the context in which I encountered it. (Not programming so much as programmers themselves.) It's been part of the jargon file for as long as I was aware such a thing existed. ETA: Also Siri will define it if asked. The definition she gives is slightly different from the one I've understood from context, but may be truer to the book. Anyway yeah, common enough to have an entry.
I've never read the book and I'm not adjacent to programmer culture, but I really like the word grok. It's useful.
I thought 'grok' was just a normal word for a couple of years before someone explained the origin to me, I had never even heard of the book
... Never read Stranger in a Strange Land. For some reason I was convinced "grok" was from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Which I have read, so there's really no excuse.
I think I consider it an ordinary, albeit informal, word, with a cool etymology. (I just looked it up, and indeed, it's in my dictionary and marked as "informal".) So I'm guessing it could work for me in the right context, but might throw me off if the narration is otherwise more formal in tone.
I learned it from a parent who read the book, but I've also seen it used in contexts that have nothing to do with the book so.... (Stranger in a Strange Land & A Handmaid's Tale are on the "when I get up the courage" sci-fi list)
"grok" is one of those words that makes me glad I don't actually talk with my human mouth because I am so unfortunately fond of it. See also; hoss. Nobody says hoss. I'm too chickenshit to even type hoss and I type in nearly unfiltered shitty hydra brain thoughts, but fuck if it ain't my go to term of address in the darkest depths of my mind.
god. i don't... Hate The Straights but sometimes fics like this happen and i fuckin H8 THE STR8S Spoiler: nsfw text THERE'S A FRANKLY UNREASONABLE AMOUNT OF HETEROSEXUALITY GOING ON HERE!!! PARTICULARLY FOR A FIC WITH LESS THAN 100 WORDS!!!!!!!!! it wouldn't piss me off except for the fact that i'm 100% sure that most of these ships are only included because they're straight. EVERY POSSIBLE STRAIGHT SHIP!!! anyway
…Wow. I didn't actually count but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the tags were over ninety words long. (I also suspect the ninety words of "fic" are just an advertisement for the smutty oneshots that are TOTALLY COMING SOON, GUYS, I PROMISE.)
Been seeing enough Harry Potter TFA AUs to get annoyed at them. I think people sorta fuck themselves over by deciding that certain groups need to all be part of the same house in order to be working together, so you get Hux and Phasma and Kylo in Slytherin because it's the Bad House for Bad People, and Rey and Finn and Poe get shoved into Gryffindor cause they're the Goodest Goods and whatnot, and it's. Obnoxious. It's not terrible if you can tell people put some fucking thought into what the characters are actually like and what they value, but most of the time it's just. Here's the bad house, here's the good house. I think that's prolly a standard of Harry Potter AUs, tho, huh? Spoiler: hydra is lame and bad at stories Like, I think it's just so obvious that Rey values interpersonal connections and loyalty more than bravery. She seems straightforwardly Hufflepuff to me. Finn could easily be a lot of things depending on what traits you wanna emphasize. Like, you could put him in Slytherin if you wanted. He's certainly driven by self interest primarily. And I don't think being a mean fucking dickhead's enough to make Kylo a Slytherin when he's so fucking "wah i know what i've gotta do but it sucks and i'm hurting" about it. That doesn't seem ambitious, it seems like he feels he's fulfilling some sort of duty. I feel like it's not very Slytherin to keep doing a thing that's hurting you for no personal gain because you feel like you gotta. Like, if you did have Finn in Slytherin and Kylo in whatever Gryffindor or Hufflepuff then you could keep the traitor dynamic in a weird cliquey Hogwarts way, with Finn being isolated from his peers by choosing to be nice to other houses and hang with Rey and co and side against the snakes when he feels it's right, and Kylo could ally himself with the Bads even though he's from the house of Decents and be isolated like how he do.
I mean on the other hand they are helping address the serious dearth of girl-on-robot action. Spock can only do so much alone. I think the concept has the potential to be pretty hot, though perhaps not in 90 words. That's 10 words less than a strictly defined drabble. I'm gonna assume they're planning to add more. Maybe it's naive of me, but I like to imagine authors who avoid anything but het porn are perfectly okay with other sexualities but just don't groove to it themselves. Which is totally legit, if you're not into something, you're not into it. And I know there are a lot of people who aren't actually cool about it, but I still hope.
i was considering commissioning this person for a fanfic or original fic because they seemed like they needed $, but. the one fic they have on their ao3 starts in 3rd person but abruptly, jarringly drops into 1st-person pov for a few paragraphs before going back to 3rd. maybe i'll just... donate... instead.........
It's absolutely not okay to contact somebody through AO3 to commission a fic, they've got very strict rules about money in order to help protect the site f from legal issues. Some artists/writers use Patreons and KoFi and other donation venues where it's less directly cash-for-specific-content... But yeah, I think it's not legal. You know, like downloading music and sharing rp pdfs. Naughty illegal things, don't do it because consequences might be larger than dealable..... I mean, because it's intellectual theft and that's Bad™. Especially if you can't afford an army of lawyers.
i mean yeah, it isn't legal :P wasn't gonna contact this person over ao3, i've definitely heard about ao3's strict money rules (which absolutely make sense for them as a platform)
